“Bizarre ways to get coaching training.” OK. I picked that title to get your attention. But I am so committed to it that I looked up the word “bizarre” and what do you suppose I found? The definition, of course… “strikingly out of the ordinary.” Hum. Here are three sensible, if perhaps strikingly out of the ordinary ways to become a trained coach. Learn by following these examples. Who else Helps Their Client Play a Different Role? How about a director? Are they involved in coaching training? … [Read more...]
Really Make a Difference – Become a Mentor
What is a mentor? And how and why does one to become a mentor. The concept is almost as old as humanity. The role of the mentor was established in law by Hammurabi in his code, which is recognized as the first codification of civil law, about 1770 BC. The word “mentor” is derived from the name of the person entrusted with the education of Ulysses’ son, when Ulysses went off to fight the Trojan War, in about 1200 BC. The concept was institutionalized down through the ages in every apprenticeship … [Read more...]
Assessment Coaching: Key to Hiring & Team Building
Whether you are building your own team or coaching a CEO, assessment coaching can be your secret weapon. Assessments, properly administered and interpreted, can almost instantly get you inside of peoples’ heads. So whether you are hiring or helping people perform as a highly effective unit, assessments can be the key to your success in coaching. Here are three insights that assessments can provide. What Is Your Style? Assessment instruments can give insights into Behavioral Style, Values and … [Read more...]
Life Coaching: Move up or Cease to Exist
There is an old saying in life coaching that goes: if you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space. I learned this lesson on the rock walls of the Wind River Mountain Range in Western Wyoming. Known for its high quality granite, the Wind Rivers are a haven for mountaineers willing to hike in for three or four days to enjoy what might be the most sensual experience of their lives. Each Day’s Beginning Lies in the Night Before The last conscious acts done before slipping into … [Read more...]
The Biggest Single Mistake in Personal Coaching
In personal coaching, the single biggest mistake is to fail to really connect with our clients and understand their authentic inner hopes and fears – their very being. You could call it being a good active listener, but just that is not it, at all. It actually defies a principle of physics: how can you get close enough to really understanding something without changing it? You can’t. Or can you? If you can, how can you do it? Here’s how. Guide without Leading Ask open questions that don’t … [Read more...]
Meditation as a Coaching Model
A coaching model is an approach to coaching. It is a set of principles that guides our engagement with our clients. There are many models in coaching, but one of my favorites is what I call the meditation model of coaching. It is based on the understanding that when we are in touch with our inner selves we are in touch with the farthest reaches of the universe. We are, therefore, in touch with all the answers to all the questions that we might possibly have. In the Mediation Coaching Model, You … [Read more...]
Break Free and Fly with Abundance Life Coaching
An old adage of life coaching is that if you aim for the moon you’ll get over the barn but if you aim to get over the barn you’ll end up in the puddle in front of the barn. You knew that, didn’t you? Well that is Abundance Coaching in a nut shell. Fear of Heights and Fear of Flying So much of coaching is all about overcoming fears. It is fear that keeps us from stepping into our potential. It is fear that keeps us from allowing our spirits to soar. And unfortunately, it is fear that keeps so … [Read more...]
Marketing for Coaches: Complaint Marketing
Marketing for coaches, and for everyone else, involves identifying the needs of a group of prospects and then communicating to them that you are the ideal person to help satisfy their needs. Now if your job is to identify customer needs, what could be better and simpler than listening for their complaints? That’s Complaint Marketing. Simple? Yes, but… The secret to Hearing Needs Is Listening for Complaints Listening for complaints, that sounds simple. Sure. But if it is, why do so many of … [Read more...]
Football, Ballet, and Sales Training Coaching
Whether in sport or dance or sales training coaching is what gets you past the theory, out of the classroom and into reality. Like sport and dance, sales is a performing art. The terrific thing is that, like sport and dance, sales is all about results, so the training coach’s worth is all about the results that they help produce on the field or on the stage or in the boardroom, which means that if you are good you can make a lot of money! Just what is a training coach? To me it is someone who … [Read more...]
What is Online Coaching? Good Question!
Rather than being cute about what online coaching is, let’s just look at a few ways that a coach can generate business and deliver services over the internet. To make this most useful, I am going to be pretty broad in my definition of the internet. Finding Clients Online The idea is actually to be “findable” online. To do this you need to create a presence online and use key words and pay per click advertising, so when people are looking for the solution to their problem, you pop-up. Notice it … [Read more...]
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